How to Use rough-hewn in a Sentence

rough-hewn

adjective
  • And through it all, Butler’s rough-hewn charm remains intact.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Inside the cup, the glaze coats a rough-hewn interior that differs from cup to cup.
    — Jaina Grey, WIRED, 22 Apr. 2024
  • They’re studded with jagged layers of chrome and rough-hewn diamond gemstones.
    — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The elder show’s rough-hewn edges and imperfections were central to its appeal.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Passages Jamie Reid, the artist who helped give British punk rock its edgy, rough-hewn look, has died at 76.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • In Arnulfo Maldonado’s rough-hewn set, the house is a mossy cabin, lit with lanterns, set among tall, shadowy trees.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The couple created Boni’s as a slightly more rough-hewn and masculine version of their bespoke sister restaurant.
    — Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026
  • One recent exhibit displayed a series of rough-hewn public fountains that evoked post-apocalyptic decay.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
  • What is certain is that, with a lyrical albeit rough-hewn alt-rock act as its headliner, this will be a different sort of Blizzard B-Day.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2026
  • There is no grand lobby with barrel vault ceiling; instead, the viewer is greeted by the sloping walls and gentle asymmetries of a rough-hewn cave, our most archaic form of shelter.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Moroney has built her profile as a prolific songwriter with a rough-hewn voice reminiscent of early Miley Cyrus.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Despite this, there’s a rough-hewn beauty to much of the earthy image-making, with Gonneville’s distinctive camerawork matched by lighting and location teams.
    — Catherine Bray, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The rustic interior has plenty of simple, rough-hewn wooden furniture, which allows beautiful plates of pintxos and tapas to shine brightly.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2026
  • Limón, 46, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, has a much calmer personality than many of her rough-hewn male predecessors.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Limón, 46, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, has a much calmer personality than many of her rough-hewn male predecessors.
    — George Skelton, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The young vineyards are planted on rocky slopes, steps from a delightfully rough-hewn tasting room at the top of the hill, giving them maximum benefit from the marine breezes blowing in from the Atlantic.
    — Paola Singer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 July 2024
  • Instead, bright gems are pressed into genderless, chunky silver rings; handmade chain links appear rough-hewn and finger prints and file marks are visible in gold bands, a style that grew out of Vernon’s own learning process.
    — Kate Matthams, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • His brooding, rough-hewn features were recognizable worldwide, his name a rallying cry from South America to the Vatican.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The split-personality rig is a rough-hewn, hard-nosed adventure support vehicle outside and an exceptionally comfortable and livable home-on-a-hitch inside.
    — New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The refined contemporary interiors are punctuated throughout with terrazzo floors, warm wood paneling, and rough-hewn stone pillars.
    — Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 4 May 2026
  • Over a mashup of fiddles and guitars, Tod and Jennings blend their rough-hewn voices on a song about consequences for older vices and choices, pondering when the consequences of those actions outweigh the vices themselves.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Two very different detectives are thrown together to work the case — a fastidious sergeant played by Kate Box and a more rough-hewn investigator played by Madeleine Sami.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
  • The city has tried to turn the page on George Floyd Square as a rough-hewn protest site by putting forward a plan to revamp the streets and sidewalks and setting aside the lot of a shuttered gas station to build a memorial or community center.
    — Ernesto Londoño, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • Its rough-hewn stone walls and simply articulated windows and stringcourses were absolutely extraordinary in their ordinariness.
    — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2025
  • The most beautiful physical object is surely the casting mold for a sculpture of the rind of an enormous winter squash, presented as a reliquary atop a rough-hewn altar, that was the centerpiece of an uninhibited 1971 performance.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In Maine, Graham Platner, a rough-hewn populist who had to cover up a Nazi tattoo, looks set to handily beat Janet Mills, the polished seventy-eight-year-old incumbent governor.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • As the title suggests, Music In Continuous Motion picks up right where its predecessor left off, with Orcutt assembling overdubbed guitar lines into brief, interlocking pieces that balance rough-hewn primitivism against painterly precision.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 1 June 2026

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